Shoe heel



Nov. 17,1925. 1,561,711 J. R. GAMMETER El' AL SHOE HEEL Filed May 11, 1922 Giver/5705 :fa/inf?. ammelef Patented Nov. 17, 1925.

N11-ED STATES I'HLI It. GAMMETER AND HARRY DEWHIEST, OIE' AKRON, OHIU, ENRS ,1%. Fi. GOIDRICH COMPANY, OF- NEW YORK, N. Y., A. CORPORATIN' Ulli' fl'l'lz Til@ SHOE nenn.

Appncatnm mee nay 11, 1922, serial No. 56mm.

To all 107mm it may Concern Be it known that we, JoHN R. GAMMETER and HARRY Dnwmnsr, citizens of the United States, residing at Akron, in the county of 4 Summit and State of Ohio, have invented e Certain new and useful Shoe Heel, of which the following is a specification.

fThis invention relates to cushion heels of composite structure, including a soft-rubber tread or cusliion portion, and e relativelystill upper attaching portion which is extended downwardly to or toward the lower tread fece et certain parts such as the heelbreast, to provide additional stiffness and support in that part. It is common to mold the neil-holes in a rubber heel inwardly to the4 stiening member or members for retaining the neil-heads, but heretofore in composite heels of the type mentioned heving e herd-rubber attaching and breast por tion, it has been e dilieult matter to secure the most desirable combination of still v:ind resilient properties in the different parts ot the heel without forming the front row oi' nail-holes in the rherd-rulfber part, which left relatively large openings for the with.- drawal of the molding-pins, which holes had to be filled with plugs after the heel was nailed to the shoe, in order to exclude foreign substances. Our object in the present invention is to avoid this dilliculty and furnish a composite heel in which all of the nail-holes are or may be formed in the, soil rubber, which allows the holes to' be made slightly smaller than the naiLhends, sind thus nearly to close thereover when Vtliel nails are'driven in piece. t

.Of the accompanying drawings, Fig.. 1 is e reverse plan view showing u preferred embodiment of our invention in the form of e l1eel,lift,'with adjacent parts of the shoe in broken lines.

Fig, 2 is al'seetion on the line 2-2 of Fi r1,

ig. 3 is a reverse planl View showing e modified construction. Fig. 4 is a vertical, lon tudinel section showing a second modification. v Referring at first to Fi s. 1 and 2, 10 is e plete-like attaching mem er made of rele,- tivel hard or stiff rubber compound, prei erebly intermixed with cotton ber, the seid member being extended downwardly l` to the lower tread surface et its iront ed portion, so as to constitute the entire breest -pzirt of the heel-lift as well es the iiorwerd part of the tread face. l2 is e sotrnhber member integrally vulcanized to the barret rubber port l0 and constituting,r most of the treed portion of the heeldift, including its lower rear edge Where the cushioning eetion is most desirable in walking.

i3, 13 are the attaching nails end lei, ifi are narrow neil-holes molded in the soitrubber es for as the :attscliing member The forwznrd part 1l of tbe herd-rubber lenient is extended rearwardly ont l5, ld ,n either side of and between the neil holes in n series of .ll-shaped indentetions or senium tb. and

lons, thereby Securing imple streng width of treed surface in the sti, ene portion il without bringing the ir' of neil-holes in seid stin .i portie in some ceses we niej? i' and insite the stitiened brei relatively smoller moet fore-endort direction port i2 et e, reietivel' widtin., es indicated junction here being ps edge.

In other ceses we may ened brein-stl portion lib above .surface end entend the soittvrnbbe forwardly so to underlie breast `portion et l? 'i f rn'i treed surface, es shown in'lig, el',

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robber heel eornpr'f'i bord-rubber attaching; member ini, e top end breast portions of the el end extended downwardly to the lo tbe broest edge, e so rubber tr, tion vnlcenized to seid 'i poi end formed with neil the seid bi portion being formed "en, indenni-ions no1 cupied by forward proj; ions on the sollt rubber .portion in which ere located the front row of neil holes,

In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands this 8 day of Mey, 192%.

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